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November 24, 2008

Crimes and Trials of the Century

Greenwood.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Two-volume set (2007) contains chronologically-arranged accounts of about 35 trials of the past century, beginning with the Black Sox scandal (1919) and continuing to the 21st-century Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.
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November 14, 2008

"Medicine in the Popular Press: The Influence of the Media on Perceptions of Disease"

Public Library of Science.
Available online.
"In an age of increasing globalization and discussion of the possibility of global pandemics, increasing rates of reporting of these events may influence public perception of risk. The present studies investigate the impact of high levels of media reporting on the perceptions of disease."
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